Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Clerical abuse
Authoritarianism and the early Irish State
Date: Fri, 2012-12-07 17:22
Fin Dwyer looks at the latter years of Ireland’s first post independence government, which having successfully suppressed political opposition and the workers’ movement, went on to “attack women and enforce their moral and ethical values on wider society”. From the clearing of prostitutes from the Monto and the filling of the Magdalene laundries to the institutionalisation of child abuse, he describes how the state’s close association with the Catholic Church played a decisive role in forming attitudes to women and sex that have had a devastating effect on Irish society that can still be felt today.
Anarchism and Religion
Date: Tue, 2010-11-23 16:42
Workers Solidarity Movement position paper on Anarchism and Religion as ratified at November 2010 National Conference.
After Cloyne: Talk is cheap the church must be removed from all schools.
Date: Wed, 2011-07-27 12:38
Enda Kenny’s speech in the Dail about the Cloyne report seems to signal that the south- ern Irish ruling class is preparing to break with the Catholic Church. While Kenny’s statement has been the strongest to date it is a pitiful reflection of the state that it has taken it this long to categorically condemn the Roman Catholic Church that, after Cloyne, is tainted beyond what even their most ardent supporters thought possible.
Clerical abuse - Seize Their Assets - Break Up the Criminal Gangs
Date: Wed, 2009-07-01 09:40
PAYE taxpayers are only not being forced to bail out bankers and speculators, we are told that we also will have to meet the compensation and legal bills of a giant paedophile network. And we should be grateful that the child abusers are throwing in a few bob towards the cost!
Why are they still running our schools?
Date: Mon, 2006-02-06 20:51
It's taken decades for the mask of evil to finally be fully exposed. The report by the inquiry into child sexual abuse by pervert priests in the Ferns diocese has at last exposed the suffering endured by huge numbers for people. Now all across the country the truth is finally being told. One of the principal reasons why priests were able to get away with their rape and abuse of children for so long was because the state abdicated its responsibility to protect children. This is most obvious in relation to control of education.
